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{{quote|''"Go West, young man."'' |'''John Soule''', popularized by '''Horace Greeley'''}}
'''Manifest Destiny''' was a theory and a movement in the 1800s and 1900s in America. It can be summed up as the idea that the United States of America was fated to extend from one coast to another, eventually to encompass the entirety of North America, an idea that helped fuel westward expansion. This is the secular version. A more complete story accounts for the fact that most of America was Christian at the time, and the theory of '''Manifest Destiny''' held that not only was it fate that America stretch from coast to coast, it was considered [[Mission
As can be seen by looking at a modern map, the destiny was fulfilled, except for the part of it extending to the Arctic Ocean as well, and down into Mexico.
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